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A Bedford-Stuyvesant man who came to personify the vulnerabilities of the criminal justice system was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life in prison for bribing three witnesses in a Brooklyn murder case.

Brooklyn prosecutors won a widely noticed victory in August when a jury convicted a 30-year old man of bribing witnesses in a murder case. The prosecutors said the man, Dupree Harris, had thumbed his nose at the legal system for years, possibly even...

A Brooklyn man yesterday received the maximum sentence of 25 years to life for killing a witness who was to testify against a relative of a reputed gang leader. The man, Trevis Ragsdale, fatally shot Bobby Gibson two years ago on the order of the...

Brooklyn prosecutors added a conviction last week to the rap sheet of a 30-year-old man with a street name and a criminal record dating back to his teenage years. That accomplishment would not ordinarily draw much notice. But this was no ordinary...

August 14, 2004, Saturday

Two summers ago, the murder case against Wesley Sykes seemed to be falling apart. Just before the trial, three witnesses reversed their previous statements to prosecutors and implicated another man in the shooting. A few days later, another witness...

A prominent Brooklyn defense lawyer took the stand yesterday and testified that nothing appeared peculiar to him when, two years ago, on the eve of a murder trial, three witnesses showed up in his office and contradicted their previous statements to...

July 30, 2004, Friday

One of three young women who witnessed the fatal shooting of their friend in a Brooklyn schoolyard in 2001 testified yesterday that she lied to a defense lawyer two years ago about who committed the crime. She also said the defendant's half brother...

July 28, 2004, Wednesday

A young woman who witnessed the schoolyard shooting of a friend in 2001 testified yesterday that she lied to a defense lawyer two years ago about who committed the shooting because she was scared she might be killed. The woman, now 20, testified...

July 23, 2004, Friday

By WILLIAM GLABERSON; Oren Yaniv contributed reporting for this article

After a trial that revived echoes of fear in a Brooklyn courthouse, a Bedford-Stuyvesant man was convicted yesterday of the 2002 murder of a man two days before the victim was expected to testify against a murder defendant. The man convicted...

Dupree Harris has been nowhere near State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. But Mr. Harris, who has been portrayed by prosecutors as a sinister force in the justice system, may be the central figure in a trial focusing on a Bedford-Stuyvesant killing...